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The ......... saga lasted three hours. A lot of people in the theater enjoyed the film but most agreed that it was too long. |
Excerpt
Except
Epoch
Epic
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2 |
I ......... there once a long time ago and haven't been back since. |
was going
have gone
go
went
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3 |
She ......... working on that manuscript for 2 years now. |
is
has been
had been
will be
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4 |
......... any one object if I turn the heating down? |
Doing
Does
Did
Do
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5 |
In Europe, a definite system of locating the annual cuttings __________ in the management of communal and government forests because under this system the forests can be so organized that an approximately equal yield is secured each year |
will have extensively used
has extensively used
is extensively used
extensively uses
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6 |
Select the option which best describes the sentence.Although he had been an often decorated soldier during World War II and had fought many battles for the losing cause of liberalism in Congress |
Run-on: put a comma after World War II
There is nothing wrong with the structure of this sentence
Fragment: put a comma after Congress and finish the sentence
Run-on: put a semicolon after World War II
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7 |
Identify the correct sentence with properly placed commas |
The problem with making decisions based upon emotion he argued is that sound reasoning, sometimes, gets lost in the process.
The problem with making decisions based upon emotion, he argued, is that sound reasoning sometimes gets lost in the process
The problem with making decisions based upon emotion he argued is that sound reasoning sometimes gets lost in the process
The problem with making decisions, based upon emotion, he argued is that sound reasoning sometimes gets lost in the process
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8 |
James usually has his lunch at this restaurant _____ sometimes he eats elsewhere |
either
but
as
if
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9 |
Egyptian pyramids were regularly robbed despite their intricate passageways, byzantine mazes, and __________. |
walls of falsity
walls which were false
false walls
they had false walls
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10 |
The coach's ___________ voice could be heard over all the other noise in the gymnasium |
sanguine
ingratiating
Strident
mellifluous
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